A Cheboygan man is in federal custody in connection with robbing a Stillwater, Minn., bank on June 8.

David Michael Tyler, 65, is facing federal charges more extensive than the 15-year maximum charged by the state of Minnesota, reports the Stillwater Gazette.

Tyler did not appear at a preliminary hearing last week and the judge in the case was told that “the feds did take him,” a county prosecutor said. Federal involvement usually means that the state drops its case to make way for the federal charges, the Gazette quoted the prosecutor as saying.

Tyler put on a fake beard and dark-tinted glasses and walked into the US Bank in Stillwater, Minn., set a black briefcase down on a desk ―and passed an employee a note stating, “It’s going to be a real good day or a real bad day,” according to court records filed earlier in Washington County (Minn.) District Court. Then he allegedly opened the briefcase, and revealed a note that read, “enough explosives to level the entire block.”

Police arrested Tyler while he was running to a truck he parked nearby and had $3,726 in his backpack the handed over by the teller. The briefcase did not contain an explosive device, police said.

Tyler told investigators he drove to Duluth and Forest Lake looking for a bank to rob before stopping in Stillwater, where he said he spent a week scouting banks, the statement adds.